Sticks
I throw sticks
In a sea of sticks,
You smell me,
And then grab the stick.
Huff and puff,
Particles, my hands,
Sagebrush grease,
And you zero in.
I throw far,
And I then throw short,
In dense shrubs,
No matter the place.
Not challenged,
Not inconvenienced
Or annoyed,
The joy is pursuit.
Retrieval,
That infers giving,
Bring back here,
And you don't do that.
But the sticks,
For the stick finding,
Found always,
Nose knows ways to stick.
I wrote an article for the Idaho Sierra Club about the intersection of queerness and community science.
#queer #lgbt #communityscience #wildlife #inaturalist #science #queerstem
Uncertainty over funding and hiring stemming from the president’s executive orders has limited wildfire training and postponed work to reduce flammable vegetation. It has also led some firefighters to leave the force, their colleagues said.
Back on Mastodon after deleting Instagram and Facebook and Whats App and Twitter 🙃
My name is Richard, I'm a queer plant ecologist and poet. I currently live in Idaho, but I'm looking for work to relocate back to southern California, where gay marriage and the rights of immigrants are more respected.
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/article275323271.html
"‘Disease-like’ goatheads have riddled Boise for years. How the city plans to eradicate them"
This is part of my PhD dissertation and I was super excited to be interviewed for this article. It's a nasty invasive species that does a lot of harm to folks bike tires. Let's do our part and eradicate it.
#invasivespecies #urbanecology #ecology #plants #plantecology #spatialecology #gis #remotesensing #goathead
AI6YR Ben
